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Product Description

KEM Plastic Playing Cards is a 60-year-old company specializing in one product - playing cards which are 100% cellulose acetate plastic. KEM plastic playing cards contain no vinyl, which is the raw material used by all other playing card manufacturers for their "plastic" playing cards. KEM cards can handle the wear and tear like no other brand of card in the industry. KEM's high performance cards will last longer, shuffle better, and deal in such a manner that you will never want to play with anything else again.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

These are very nice cards because they are Kem plastics and handle as such. However, the Pantheon back design, while pretty, we found undesirable. The two deck set is colored primarily with one deck being muted blue and one deck being muted red. Because the colors are muted, every one of us playing found it difficult to distinguish one deck from the other even in relatively decent lighting. (Of course, if you only play with one deck at a time, then the back colors would be insignificant. But we always play with the second deck that is shuffled and dealt while the other deck is in play. It saves a lot of time and waiting while playing cards.)

So these are the classic Kem construction. Wonderful feel, easy to shuffle, a joy to deal (you can slide them across the felt so easily with a bit of practice) and extremely durable. However, a couple of people at my game have slight color-blindness, and had serious difficulty distinguishing between the red deck and the blue deck. My vision is fine, but even I had to check twice. They're great cards, but if you have a two-deck game going, you might want to get some Kems that are easier to tell apart, like the Arrow, Golf or Paisley.